Coroner is the penultimate release by the Swiss

Switzerland

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 thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band Coroner

Coroner (band)

Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal/progressive metal band from Zurich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. Formed in 1983, the band broke up in 1996, but decided to reform 14 years later. The band will perform at multiple live venues and festivals around the world in 2011,...

. It is technically a compilation album

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, although it features new material as well as selected songs from the band's previous albums. It is also regarded as their final album, even though it was succeeded by a final compilation of unreleased material in 1996, titled The Unknown Unreleased Tracks 1985-95. The band chose to go into the studio for the last time, instead of releasing a "Greatest Hits"

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 compilation, even though they had disbanded officially in 1994 (on some of the tracks, Edelmann and Broder are replaced by session musicians).

Track listing

1. "Benway's World" (Ron Broder, Marky Edelmann, Tommy Vetterli) – 0:49
2. "The Favorite Game" (Edelmann, Vetterli) – 4:30
3. "Shifter" (Edelmann, Vetterli) – 4:50
4. "Serpent Moves" (Edelmann, Vetterli) – 6:13
5. "Snow Crystal" (Broder, Edelmann, Vetterli) – 0:37
6. "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)" (Broder, Edelmann, Vetterli) – 6:21
7. "Gliding Above While Being Below" (Vetterli) – 3:37
8. "Der Mussolini" (Paul Delgado, Görl: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
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    cover) – 3:39
9. "Last Entertainment (T.V. Bizarre)" (Broder, Edelmann, Vetterli) – 3:51
10. "Reborn Through Hate" (Broder, Edelmann, Vetterli) – 4:02
11. "Golden Cashmere Sleeper, Part 1" (Edelmann, Vetterli) – 4:57
12. "Golden Cashmere Sleeper, Part 2" (Vetterli) – 4:59
13. "Masked Jackal" (Broder, Edelmann, Vetterli) – 5:01
14. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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     cover) – 7:15
15. "Grin" [No Religion Remix] (Edelmann, Vetterli) – 8:25
16. "Purple Haze
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Credits

• Ron Broder - Vocals/Bass
• Tommy Vetterli - Guitars
• Peter Haas - Drums on tracks 2, 3 & 11
• Chris Vetterli - Bass on Track 12

• Guy Bidmead – Producer, Engineer
• Scott Burns – Mixing
• Coroner – Producer
• Lui Cubello – Vocals (bckgr)
• Paul Degayler – Vocals
• Marky Edelmann – Drums, Vocals, Producer, Art Direction
• Vovo Faux-Pas – Engineer
• Paolo Fedrigoli – Producer, Engineer, Remixing, Mixing
• Jan Garber – Engineer
• Angela Giger – Synthesizer
• Mischa Good – Design
• Pete Hinton – Producer
• Harris Johns – Producer
• Dan Johnson – Mixing
• Glenn Miller – Mastering
• Tom Morris – Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Mark Prator – Assistant Engineer
• Steve Rispin – Engineer
• Janelle Sadler – Vocals (bckgr)
• Steve Gruden- Vocals (bckgr)
• Fabian Scheffold – Art Direction, Photography
• Kent Smith – Keyboards
• Sven Sonquest – Engineer
• Val – Conga
• István Vizner – Art Direction
• Karl-Ulrich Walterbach – Executive Producer
• Gerhard Wolfle – Engineer

External links

• BNR Metal Pages' section on Coroner
• Fan page with detailed album information and lyrics
• Coroner @ Last.fm